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...revealed small areas, each around a warm spring, that were teeming with clams, mussels, tube worms and scavenger crabs. The probable explanation for the profusion of these organisms, announced last week: warm waters from the submarine hot spots are rich in hydrogen sulfide, which provides a food supply for sulfur-eating organisms called thiobacilli. These bacteria, in turn, become part of a food chain that nourishes the marine animals clustering around the submarine geysers...
...energy emergencies, industries will be allowed to burn fuels that are ordinarily banned because of antipollution laws. In Ohio, where Columbia Gas will start limiting more than 1,300 schools and businesses to just 15% of their normal supplies this week, Governor Rhodes permitted industries to burn smoky high-sulfur coal. Said he: "We can go back to coal and save the schools, save the jobs, save Ohio and save the nation...
Athens' tumultuous auto traffic, combined with the factories that have sprung up since the end of World War II, has pumped so much sulfur dioxide into the air that it is literally melting the Parthenon's marble. In the past ten years, according to Greece's Minister of Culture, Constantine Trypanis, the carved details on the five caryatids of the Erechtheum have seriously degenerated, while the face of the horseman on the Parthenon's west side is all but obliterated. In addition to the pollution damage, frosts and water seepage have cracked some of the stones...
...Western states would permanently deface the land and cause widespread erosion) without discouraging investment by the coal companies-a formula exceedingly difficult to devise. Moreover, scores of new mines will have to be opened in the East. To avoid health hazards, effective scrubbers-devices that remove dangerous sulfur fumes from the stack gases of coal-burning plants-must be perfected and other means found to treat high-sulfur coal. All that will require billions of dollars in new capital for what is now a $5 billion industry...
...foreign experts who convened at the University of Colorado's recent energy conference in Boulder, fully expect that the current price of $11.51 per bbl. (for low-sulfur crude at the Persian Gulf) will rise anywhere from 10% to 20%. As OPEC members see it, the industrialized nations can well afford the tab. The world recession seems to have largely lifted, and crude oil sales are rising as a result. Tanker charters have emerged from the doldrums, as top customers have scrambled to stock up on crude before the price rises again, often paying a 25? or 30? premium...